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kingjon3rd

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if i have a tolerance of +.005 -.000, how can i not show the .000 and have the +.005 be in line with the dimension without faking it but doing nominal and adding it in after @D.
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Not sure why you'd want to do that, but you may need to adjust something in your dtl file. IMO I think doing this could lead to some confusion some people still might read it as
 
audctl: You make an excellentpoint. And not to mention that just having a +.005 alone would likely vilotate all the standards that I know of.


Kingjon3rd: It would seems that if you absolutely have to do it, you're probably going to have to "fake it".
 
i dont know about you, but one example would be bearings and shafts have often dimensions only in one direction with the other as .0000
 
I believe that ASME standard for this would go something like this. In the inch world an unequal tolerance is shown.


+.005


-.000


In the metric world an unequal tolerance is show like this


+0.127


0 (minus sign not shown)
 
dr_gallup said:
Look at drawing option Lead_Trail_Zeros
Click to expand...

didnt seem to work for me.
WF2
played with lead_trail_zeros_scope to no avail aswell

anyone get this to work? If so how?
 
Here is explanation of lead_trail_zeros & blank_zero_tolerance
lead_trail_zeros std_default
Controls use of leading and trailing zeros in a dimension,enabling independent control over the dimension value displayfor primary and secondary units in the drawing. If set to
 
Personally i find it annoying when people post the manual when referencing a question.
I would assume that anyone asking a question would have consulted said documentation and not come away with the desired result and is thus looking for assistance.
 
While that is a reasonable assumption it would appear to be dead wrong about 95% of the time based on the majority of the postings.
 
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